The student-run magazine of San Francisco State University

Xpress Magazine

The student-run magazine of San Francisco State University

Xpress Magazine

The student-run magazine of San Francisco State University

Xpress Magazine

Coachella descends on Indio once again.

Xpress Mag Staff
April 26, 2014

Written and Photographed by Anais Fuentes Beaming down from the sky with blistering heat, sun rays cover the Empire Polo Fields in Indio, California. This isolated desert area, about a dozen miles...

It’s Small World, After All: Exploring Disney’s pervasiveness into our culture.

Xpress Mag Staff
April 26, 2014

Written by Justice Boles You have seen the trailer for Disney’s Maleficent by now. Starring Angelina Jolie. Has the badass CGI and the creepy song. You know the one… er... three. Anyways, for those...

Guess who’s coming to dinner?

Xpress Mag Staff
April 26, 2014

Written by Erika Linker "Aren't you going to eat the meat I put in there for you?" The dreaded and familiar question had been lobbed at me before I could turn away and hide the remaining contents...

Were all spinning

We’re all spinning

Xpress Mag Staff
April 17, 2014

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s65GbpdaL0&feature=youtu.be Written by Katrina Andaya Photo & Video by Tony Santos She looks up just for a brief moment as her green and yellow hula-hoop spins...

Yike or Die

Xpress Mag Staff
April 16, 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTNFcoDbBT4&feature=youtu.be Written by Matthew Reyes Photos by Ryan Leibrich It’s raining. Not a welcoming mist rolling over the Bay Area on a calm winter’s...

Fostering Friends

Xpress Mag Staff
April 8, 2014

Written by Melissa Landeros In the summer of 2005 SF State established the Guardian Scholars Program (GSP), which would prove to be life-changing for a number of students. The program, created to...

Finding the Light

Xpress Mag Staff
April 8, 2014

Written by Bek Phillips Photos by Gavin McIntyre “I love you, mom.” Those were the words she wrote before she emptied a full bottle of Vicodin in her hand and methodically took each pill....

Breathe: Holistic Health

Xpress Mag Staff
April 7, 2014

  Written by Ben Tasner Photos by Lorisa Salvatin Students rest their arms and legs as they lie on the floor of a darkened dance studio. The room is an ocean, and their bodies, like softly...

The Beginning and End as Far as Rap Goes*

Xpress Mag Staff
April 7, 2014

Written by Katie Mullen Photos by Lorisa Salvatin To define hip-hop as a musical genre and culture is to make sense of an oxymoron. The true essence of hip-hop resides on the continuum between...

At the Crack of the Whip

Xpress Mag Staff
April 7, 2014

Written by Katrina Andaya, photos by Ryan Leibrich “The noise you are hearing is a sonic boom,” Daren Wilkerson, a semi professional whip cracker, says under his brown Indiana Jones hat. “The...

An Undocumented Dream

Xpress Mag Staff
April 3, 2014

Story By Nicole Crittenden Photo By Jenny Sokolova Nestled between the protective arms of her mother, one-year-old Jessica Iniguez and her parents say goodbye to their home in Jalisco as they depart...

What the Fuck is Foraging?

Xpress Mag Staff
April 3, 2014

  Written and illustrated by Nicole Dobarro With a teasing view of the Golden Gate Bridge peaking out above the fog, my eyes were peeled across acres of foliage while my mind shuffled through...

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